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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...feckless boyfriend named Buckley, until he died in the propane blast. She later dated a series of jerks (voiced by Matthew McConaughey, Owen Wilson, Michael Keaton) and finally married one of them (Tom Waits). But her main function was to vex her uncle, the very conservative Hank Hill (voiced by the show's co-creator, Mike Judge) - once by joining the Communist party, and mostly by having taken Hank's den as her bedroom when she moved in. (See 25 people who mattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Brittany Murphy Is Worth Remembering | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

...initial premise of TARP, which was sold to Congress as a loan program that would be mostly paid back to the Treasury, where its proceeds would be used to pay down the deficit. "The $700 billion program we have proposed is not a spending program," former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson explained before Congress in September 2008. It didn't take long for Republicans to take that position. "The stimulus money clearly was a spending bill. TARP was a loan - a loan to be paid back. And we know that a number of the banks are, in fact, paying it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling for a New Stimulus, Obama Is Ready to Rumble | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...trial were cured, but the setback reverberated through the field, dissuading researchers and funding. "A lot of financial interest has disappeared since it became clear that it's going to take a long time and it's not going to be easy [to develop gene-therapy drugs]," says Hank Greely of Stanford University's Center for Biomedical Ethics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Gene Therapy Finally Ready for Prime Time? | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

...significance—as a testament to the group’s careful song selection as well as an inspired sequencing of tracks. That much of the offering centers around mid- to late-century rock and soul music is no surprise for a group that got their start playing Hank Williams and Prince covers in bars...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smoldering Musical Discourse, Rising from the Ashes | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...Look What You Can Make With Newspapers, Magazines, and Greeting Cards (Craft),” by Kathy Ross and Hank Schneider

Author: By Kate A Borowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Books in FM's Lamont-Worthy Collection | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

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